Yes I acussed Core of hypocracy because they said they would not implement any contentious changes. This is part of the reason why they are presently not increasing the blocksize according to them. However now they are releasing RBF which certainly is a contentious issue. Without any debate, voting, time or even miner consensus, this is hypocritical.
Opt-in RBF is a twist on Satoshi's original implementation of unconfirmed transaction replacement. It is not imposed on any individual user and therefore is as much a contentious issue as multi-signature is, which is to say not at all. Different variations of it have been discussed over the years and the current implementation has been reviewed, vetted & ACKED by a majority of the participants to the Bitcoin open-source repo. Every single miner is free to opt out from this behaviour hence the outright stupidity of suggesting it requires miner consensus. Go and do your homeworks will ya? |
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Bid support on Stamp is slightly worrying  Deposits get cleared tomorrow  |
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We are supposed to see a dump because of the coins used in the Black Friday and dumped by the merchants, why does the price keeps slowly rising?
Because Bitcoin's retail adoption is pretense and has no bearing on these markets. |
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Is there anyone out there that would actually want to pretend that there is such a thing as a Bitcoin retail economy, as it currently stand, and that it is anything more than a few thousand redditards sending the same half a million bitcoins back and forth amongst their little "mass adoption" cargo cult while surrending to industry idols, VC priests & the golden lustre of their banking sponsors? Anyone  |
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/r/bitcoin right now  |
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Talking about Satoshi, I do not appreciate you implying that I am a coward because I am "hiding" behind a pseudonym.
Satoshi wasn't busy throwing baseless accusations around and spouting empty political statements. "Cypherpunks write code" |
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I do not understand this statement and I find it offensive. I looked it up on google and the results where primarily comprised of examples of logical fallacy.
 So you didn't get the hint... |
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AFAIK the ponzi is still going on.
Right, and has been for the last couple of weeks yet no sign (except for the last couple days) of the volume that was previously credited to it. Could you please check the daily volume at OKCoin and Huobi over the past year? And compare to Bitstamp and Bitfinex... Oh so now you're suggesting the totality of Chinese exchanges volume is a consequence of the MMM ponzi. It's quite amazing how you manage to twist and turn any news item into a rationale as to why Bitcoin's price is rising but of course it explicitly never is because of normal demand for Bitcoin. |
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AFAIK the ponzi is still going on.
Right, and has been for the last couple of weeks yet no sign (except for the last couple days) of the volume that was previously credited to it. |
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PS. About MMM's Bitcoin Ponzi, a perturbing factor is what MMM will do with the bitcoins that it collects.
(Ostensibly, the victims send bitcoins directly to each other, and MMM does not touch the bitcoins and does not take commission. However, it is a safe bet that many of the people asking for donations are actually MMM bosses.)
I doubt that he will want to keep bitcoins for long. So, after the ponzi collapses, the price may eventually return to the $220 level.
 Still entertaining the MMM boogeyman? I thought we had put this to bed once and for all. Considering the volume of the last few weeks it seems pretty clear that their role in last month's rally was quite exagerated and marginal at best. |
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AFAIK they already achieve that using the Relay Network. Could definitely be an improvement to have this baked into the protocol but from where I stand it does nothing to mitigate the externalization of costs to full nodes. |
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I noticed the price had an upside bias since Mike's ragequit moment, coincidence?
Gavin, give it up, XT has more baggage than a trophy wife going on holiday.
LoLCows over at bitco.in claiming Gavin's consideration of XT "leadership" is actually responsible for the rise |
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inb4 corpcoin.  [img]http://-snip-[img] So there will be corpcoin and nichecoin. The choice will be yours. In other words a beat down Honda vs. a Ferrari. I know which one I choose I would choose the Honda, less expensive and more reliable.  That just goes to show how economically illiterate you are. http://www.contravex.com/2014/03/13/on-making-bitcoin-accessible-or-not/I strongly disagree with the economic theory in this article, furthermore it quotes Warren Buffet to make its points, someone I certainly also often disagree with. Whatever your economic beliefs might be it does not change that I do not think that Bitcoin economic policy should be decided on by a small group of technical experts in the form of Core.We can start having a discussion when you stop entertaining this blatant BS. Until then, you're just another troll. Enjoy your irrelevancy |
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inb4 corpcoin. [img]http://-snip-[img] So there will be corpcoin and nichecoin. The choice will be yours. In other words a beat down Honda vs. a Ferrari. I know which one I choose I would choose the Honda, less expensive and more reliable. That just goes to show how economically illiterate you are. http://www.contravex.com/2014/03/13/on-making-bitcoin-accessible-or-not/ |
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inb4 corpcoin. [img]http://-snip-[img] So there will be corpcoin and nichecoin. The choice will be yours. In other words a beat down Honda vs. a Ferrari. I know which one I choose |
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For what reason do they need to charge for such a card?
Call me a cheapskate, but I think that I will wait it out until either such issuance is free to me or there is some tangible (and/or financial) benefit that would cause me to earn back such $10 within a reasonable period of time.
Issuing and sending a card to you isn't completely free for them. This card is cheap compared to Bitstamp, Xapo or Bit-x. >Bitcoin lets you be your own bank, thus avoiding exorbitant fees charged by middlemen such as CC companies. >Coinbase CC is the most reasonably priced of all the grossly overpriced preloaded bitcoin CC. Bitcoin Visa doesn't charge hidden fees Visa typically charges retailers. This allows you to get ~5% discount, whenever and wherever you use it. Not 100% sure, but would make sense. Please correct me if wrong. If I were to receive a 5% discount or any other meaningful amount, then surely that could cause me to pay for such card under the belief that the card will pay for itself. Use fiat and get 5% cash back on all your purchases! |
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